Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01

word, with an altitude of 200 feet, in the
midst of pine, cedar, fur and spruce forests,
the atmosphere freighted with resinous,
health-giving perfumes that defieS sickness
and restores to health those troubled with
lung affection who go there to inhale its
health giving qualities. 1t is the center of
trade for large area of excellent farming
country. Her mines, placer, quartz and
gravel are prosecuted with great profit,
and her numbering interests are simply in
exhaustible. The Georgetown Gdeette, pub
lished by H. w. Hubert every Friday, is
an excellent paper, well patronized, and
and bringing in what is needed, immi-
grants to settle upon vacant lands.
OTHER TOWNS.
Greenwood, Coloma, FL Dorado, Dia-
mond Springs, Grizzly Flat, Latrobe, Lotus
and Single Springs, all are towns Of con-
siderable size, and each a trade center of
considerable extent of country. No sec
ton of country upon the coast, nor, indeed,
no like section in the Union, presents
greater variety, or diversity in soil, climate
and productions. In two days travel you
can go from the orange and persimmon
groves, which grow luxuriant in its south
ern, western and middle portions, TO the
snow that enwraps the summit OF the ST.
erras with its eternal mantle of white.
The altitude of the county ranges from 200
feet on its western border to 1880, the
SUBMITS of the Sierras. The foothill
belt" which extends from point ten miles
east of Placerville to the western boundary
of the county, comprises an area thirty or
or forty miles in width, east and west,
and from the American to the Costumes,
north and south, and in this vast section is
embraced nearly all of the best agricultural
lands. Fruit trees and vineyards flourish,
and all the cereals yield abundant harvests.
The fruit interest of the county is in the
lead. has proven to be the most profitable,
and makes the largest returns for the least
outlay Peaches, prunes, apricots, plums,
pears, apples, berries OF all kinds and
grapes mature to perfection, and have
delicacy of favor that is not equaled any
where, save in the neighborhood OF New
castle, Placer county, which has the same
character of soil and climate. Apples and
pears thrive in their greatest perfection on
the Georgetown divide, even at an altitude
of $500 feet.
TIMBER LANDS.
East of this agricultural belt, extending
the entire length Of the county, north and
south. and to its eastern boundary, are
some of the finest timber lands upon the
coast. On the Georgetown divide, which
lies between the south and middle forks OF
the American river, these forests, many
miles in extent, stand in their original
primeval pride, having never heard the
sound of the woodlands ak. Here are
found majestic pine, 300 feet high and II
feet in diameter, standing as thick upon
the ground as tees in an orange grove.
The entire county is well timbered, the
lower foothills with both white and black
oak, and little further up with oak, yell
low and white pine. The whole country is
literally and well supplied with living
springs, while the hundreds of rayines and
CANYONS that head in the Sierras, are con-
stantly fed by the melting SHOWS. In nc
portion of the county is there lack OF water
or fuel, as both can be found in great
abundance on every hand.
THE SOIL AND ITS PRODUCTIONS.
Most of the land in the western portion
| of the county is what is termed rolling, yet
| thousands of it is level, and these lands for
| hay. grain or fruit, are unsurpassed in Their
productions of both fruit crops and cereals
] In this section floods are never known, cy-